| 单词 | brattle |
| 例句 | Crickets and night toads, the brattle of a dog, laundry billowing on a line against the night breeze. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z We found a remarkably nice level bit of grass, screened by a rocky bank, and with what the Skipper called ‘a brattling brooklet’ in front, about two hundred yards from the lake. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z Below was heard the ceaseless brattle of the waters, as they ran over and amongst the rocks which probably constituted the debris formed in the convulsion that opened this chasm. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Better the nag that ambles a' the day than him that makes a brattle for a mile and then's dune wi' the road. The Proverbs of Scotland Flaught and flail, Fire and hail: Winds arise, and tempests brattle, And, if you will, the thunders rattle. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales "Is it because there comes an accidental brattle of thunder?" he returned. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One The storm continued with unabated fury: the red lightning played around him, the brattling thunder stunned him, and the pelting rain poured down upon his head. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest A correspondent from Newcastle writes advocating the recognition of the word brattle as descriptive of thunder. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin Farewell, volcanic din, Olympian brattle, The bursting bomb, the thousand-throated cheer Tartarean roar, the volleyed rifle rattle, The rocket's lightning line of fire and fear. Soldier Songs and Love Songs When beasts and birds cowered with affright From brattling winds that, roving free, Moaned in the woods of Dowielee. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Too well they shall know, when amid the wild brattle Of the waters below, they enter life's battle. A Celtic Psaltery These words were followed by another clang, louder and more brattling than the first. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest The N.E.D. explains this as 'to run with brattling feet, to scamper'. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin She wondered by the brattling brook, And trembled with the trembling lea. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. It opened upon the river just where a small brook comes brattling down the bank, along the base of a hill of some magnitude that yet retains the stately name of Mount Ararat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Just in the heart of the brattle the grating of the yett turning on its rusty hinges was but too plainly heard. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction True Thomas played upon his harp, That birled and brattled to his hand, And the next least word True Thomas made, It garred the King take horse and brand. Verses 1889-1896 It is possible that brattle has fallen into disuse through too indiscriminate application. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin He could show the litui with their carved clarions--the twisted cornua--the tuba, a trumpet so long and taper,--the concha wound by Tritons--and eke the buccina, a short and brattling horn. A Love Story The noise of the riven beam was like the brattling of thunder. The Coming of Cuculain The delusion is complete, when, on a mild evening, the tree-toads open their brittle- brattle chorus on the edge of the pond. The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 A brook babbles and brattles by the wayside, giving you a sense of companionship, which relieves the deep solitude in which this way is usually traversed. Half a Life-Time Ago As Burns happens to use bickering as his epithet for the mouse's brattle, we may take this word as another illustration of Littr�'s principle. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin One by one the others perform the same feat, and continue the sport for hours, striving which can produce the loudest brattle while turning. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 Better the nag that ambles a' the day, than him that makes a brattle for a mile, and then's dune wi' the road.' Redgauntlet |
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